Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Week

Don't fly by the seat of your pants. Do it the healthy way with these airborne tips. - Yes to stretching. Even more yesses to hydration.
Raw Story

The clear signs that a Democrat fightback has begun - During a summer when the popularity of Donald Trump fell to abysmal lows -- and strong disapproval of his presidency achieved record highs -- those dire ...
Mother Jones

Democratic Voters Want their Leaders to Stop Running From Zohran Mamdani - Zohran Mamdani hadn’t been Regina Weiss’ first choice for mayor of New York City. She’d ranked city comptroller Brad Lander number-one on her primary ballo...
The Verge

Tesla says its new Megablock can cut costs for renewable energy storage. - At an event in Las Vegas yesterday, Tesla revealed a new utility-scale battery configuration that it claims can significantly lower construction costs for ...
The Hill

Homan supports military approach to drug traffickers: 'We're at war in the cartel' - President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan defended the Trump administration's military approach to address drug trafficking on Monday, days after the U.S. mi...
Mediaite

Dem Bristles as CNN Anchor Says ‘No Reason’ to Suspect Trump Amid Epstein Bomb: ’14-Yr-Old Claimed She Was Raped’ by Trump - Rep. Dave Min (D-CA) objected when CNN anchor John Berman said there's "no reason" to suspect Trump amid new bombshell revelations about Jeffrey Epstein....
Eschaton

Sure Why Not - I guess Trump is gonna need a bigger (than an airplane) bribe. Israel targets Hamas leadership in Qatar strike
The Guardian (U.S. news)

GirlsDoPorn founder receives 27-year prison sentence for sex trafficking - Prosecutors say Michael James Pratt used force, fraud and coercion to recruit hundreds of women for adult videos The founder of a California-based pornog...
San Antonio Current

Gov. Greg Abbott plans executive order regulating THC in Texas - [image: A person weighs hemp buds at a retail store.] After efforts to rein in the state’s growing hemp industry fell apart in the Texas Legislature, Gov....
memeorandum

Exclusive: Trump calls Epstein birthday message a 'dead issue,' declines further comment (Garrett Haake/NBC News) - Garrett Haake / NBC News: *Exclusive: Trump calls Epstein birthday message a ‘dead issue,’ declines further comment* — Reached briefly by phone this mo...
Mediagazer

CBS aired MTV's VMAs for the first time, prompting a 42% YoY increase in audience to 5.5M viewers, a six-year high (The Hollywood Reporter) - The Hollywood Reporter: *CBS aired MTV's VMAs for the first time, prompting a 42% YoY increase in audience to 5.5M viewers, a six-year high* — Welcome ...
Bonddad

The “gold standard” QCEW suggests there may have been *no growth at all* in jobs so far this year - - *by New Deal democrat* The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) for Q1 of this year was released this morning. Perhaps more importantly...
Futurism

Orson Welles' Estate Disgusted by Amazon Remaking His Movie Using AI - Amazon is planning to use artificial intelligence to recreate destroyed footage from Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons" — and the late directors' ...
Daily Howler

NORMAL AND NOT: It seems to be "not normal" now! - *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2025* *It's plainly the norm over time:* For better or worse, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is promoting a book. Last n...
Dissident Voice

The Peoples Conference for Palestine: Another Step Forward - The well-organized Palestine conference in Detroit brought over 4600 there, with a heavy Palestinian presence. Most of the speakers in the plenaries were...
Daily Dot

“So cooked”: Target employee says new products are arriving without price tags so customers can’t see price changes IRL - [image: target items without price tags] A Target employee has sparked debate online after speculating that stores are removing price tags from clothing ...
Popular Resistance

Gaza Flotilla In Tunis Attacked By Explosives Delivered By Drones - For the second time in three months, drones carrying explosives have attacked boats in the Gaza flotillas. I was in Malta when the “Conscience” ship was ...
Political Wire

Michigan Judge Throws Out Charges Against Fake Electors - “A Michigan judge threw out charges Tuesday against Republicans who claimed to be presidential electors for Donald Trump in a state he lost in the 2020 ele...
Al Jazeera English

Jerusalem shooting escalates “collective punishment acts” - “There is almost no Palestinian city or village that escapes attacks from illegal settlers.”
SCOTUSblog

Learning from Second Amendment litigation - Second Thoughts is a recurring series by Haley Proctor on the Second Amendment and constitutional litigation. Please note that the views of outside contr...
Slate

Slate Crossword: Art Supply Found in the Grain Aisle (Eight Letters) - Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for Sept. 9, 2025.
Undernews

Appeals court suppresses state standing in federal employment cases - *Newsweek - *In a major victory for the Donald Trump administration, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, that 19 mostly Democratic-led states and Wash...
Salon.com

The best way to meal prep - Forget slogging through sad weekly leftovers. Try a quarterly Big Prep Day, instead
CultureMap Houston

New York Times names Houston West African restaurant to 50 best list - The *New York Times* has included four Texas restaurants, including one in Houston, on its annual list of *America’s 50 best restaurants*.
Daily Cartoonist

Has Olivia Jaimes Quit Nancy? - Last week for the first time I am aware of since Olivia Jaimes took over the Nancy comic strip in 2018 it went into rerun status, using Jaimes strips from ...
Texas Observer

Twenty Years Later, Katrina Still Haunts the Gulf from New Orleans to Houston - Editor’s Note: Join us Wednesday evening for a joint event sponsored by Mother Jones, the Texas Observer, and Capital B. “The Lingering Storm” will revis...
Idavox

Xenophobic ‘March for Australia’ Was the Violent Nazi Rally it Sounded it Would Be - A Nazi rally by any other name stinks all the same. Andy Fleming On Sunday,... The post Xenophobic ‘March for Australia’ Was the Violent Nazi Rally it S...
naked capitalism

Giorgio Armani: Farewell to the Visionary Designer/Businessman Who Lifted Italy into Fashion Leadership - Armani played a key role in fashion, not just via designs, but also his business acumen that helped elevate Italy to the industry's top tier
Houston Public Media

Abbott expected to issue executive order setting age requirements for THC-products, other restrictions - The executive order comes after the Legislature ended a special session without the House, Senate and governor agreeing on restrictions.
Election Law Blog

“Trump Administration Quietly Seeks to Build National Voter Roll” - NYT: The Justice Department is compiling the largest set of national voter roll data it has ever collected, buttressing an effort by President Trump and ...
Courthouse News

French government collapse leaves Macron with few cards to play - On Monday, a failed confidence vote triggered the prime minister's resignation, effectively leaving France without a government. Exactly what happens next ...
Axios

Israel conducts airstrike in Qatar to assassinate Hamas officials - Israel conducted an air strike on Tuesday to try and assassinate Hamas leaders in Doha, two Israeli officials told Axios. *Why it matters: *The assassina...
Second Nexus

People Who Encountered A True Psychopath Share The Tell-Tale Signs They Spotted - Coming face-to-face with evil personified. The truth is, we all do it several times a day. During my years in hospitality, I felt like a magnet for luna...
El Paso Matters

UTEP expands esports program; EPCC launches its own - The University of Texas at El Paso and the El Paso Community College have embraced esports competition this fall. Both institutions expect these moves w...
First Draft

A Pox Upon Our House - As nitwits dismantle public health policy and some brave experts speak up, "moderate Republicans" are staying (vaccinated and) AWOL.
The Daily Poster

It’s Just Not That Complicated - America’s problems are simple to diagnose and solve. Let’s stop pretending everything is complex and entertainingly counterintuitive.
Rewire

Telehealth Abortion Could End Up in Front of The Supreme Court With This Latest Move - In a suit brought by Texas, New York Attorney General Letitia James will defend her state’s abortion shield laws, which protect health providers offering...
Glasstire

Recapping the 2025 Armory Show - I just returned from a whirlwind trip to New York City and Washington, D.C. I was in NYC for the 2025 Armory Show, my first time to attend the fair.… The...
Democracy Now!

"Chipocalypse": Viet Thanh Nguyen on Trump Invoking "Apocalypse Now" & Speaking Out on Gaza Genocide - Just days after President Trump threatened to wage war on the city of Chicago, ICE launched what it called “Operation Midway Blitz,” and President Trump cl...
ArcaMax

Scam Season: The 'Genocide Scholars' Stage A 'Vote,' And We Get Snookered - When a president recites 30,000 documented falsehoods in one term, is indicted by federal grand juries for violating the Espionage Act and obstructing just...
Techdirt.

With Looming CBS Hire Of Bari Weiss, Two Of The Four Major U.S. Networks Will Now Be Right Wing Propaganda Mills - For fifty years or so, U.S. media academics warned anybody who would listen about the perils of letting your media companies consolidate in the hands of a ...
Space City Weather

Happy Fall Day, everyone! - In brief: It’s officially Fall Day in Houston, with the season’s first 65-degree temperature reading this morning. We are also excited to announce that we’...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s Federal Worker Crackdown: Mass Fightback Needed - On March 27th, Donald Trump unveiled an executive order that would strip over a million federal workers of the ability to engage in union bargaining with g...
Angry Bear

Political Appointees will Review Scientific Grants - A first level of review is carried out by a scientific review group (SRG). It is composed (primarily) of non-federal scientists who have expertise in rel...
Vox

Why everyone hates the Democrats right now, explained in 3 charts - If there’s one thing a large majority of Americans have consistently agreed on this year, it’s that the Democratic Party sucks. Unfavorable views of the pa...
ProPublica

“Material Support” and an Ohio Chaplain: How 9/11-Era Terror Rules Could Empower Trump’s Immigration Crackdown - by Hannah Allam ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
The Smirking Chimp

Should Democrats Shut the Government? -
Alternet

'What else is he lying about?' Dems pounce on new Trump-Epstein bombshell - Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Monday released a photo showing a pornographic birthday card that US President Donald Trump allegedly sent ...
The Root

Trump Suggested Domestic Violence is a ‘Lesser Crime’ and Black Twitter is Reading Him For Filth - Trump seemingly downplayed domestic violence and Black folks on social media were not about to let him get away with it. Read more...
Skeptophilia

Collectibles - A couple of days ago my writer friend, Vivienne Tuffnell, posted a link to a blog called *Cazadora*. Vivienne is a stunningly good writer, and her books...
Off The Kuff

NY AG to intervene in Carpenter case - Raising the stakes. New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday said she will intervene in a legal fight over Texas’ ban on abortion pills, escalatin...
San Antonio Report

Listen: From closing Kelly Air Force Base to shooting for the stars - Bob Rivard talked with local leaders who have focused on Kelly Air Force Base and its transformation into Port San Antonio. ------------------------------ L...
American Prospect

Trump Lets Bosses Grab $400 Billion in Worker Pay - By refusing to defend a ban on noncompete agreements in court, the Federal Trade Commission enables employers to suppress wages.
Scheerpost.com

US War Department To Shift Focus From China to ‘Threats’ in Latin America: Report - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says the US is trying to overthrow his government and has pledged to combat any armed coup attempt.
Progressive Army

Argentina Alimenta 2026: la nueva exposición internacional para el sector alimentario en Buenos Aires - La feria Argentina Alimenta 2026, organizada por La Rural junto a Copal y la Agencia Argentina de Inversiones y Comercio Internacional, se realizará en nov...
NPR's Health Shots

Trump's Medicaid cuts will hurt children's hospitals - The GOP said its overhaul of Medicaid was aimed at reducing fraud and getting more adult beneficiaries to work. Among the likely side effects: fewer servic...
Grist

Report: Big businesses are doing carbon dioxide removal all wrong - The technology is needed to limit global warming. But corporations are supporting it in lieu of emissions reductions.
Infidel753

Image round-up for 9 September 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the *Lawrence of Arabia* video, click here.] ...
High Country News

How to comment on the planned roadless rule rollback - The deadline to weigh in on the change is 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 19. The post How to comment on the planned roadless rule rollback appeared f...
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Nation of Narcissists - Narcissism is the open-and-shut condition of the elites who fashion and execute American foreign policy. And they are utterly incapable of seeing their co...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Epstein Doodle Grosser than Expected - The post Trump’s Epstein Doodle Grosser than Expected appeared first on Crooked Media.
Common Dreams

Centering Their Voices: This Is What Power Looks Like - After decades of silence born of fear, shame, trauma, over 20 Epstein survivors came together in D.C. for the first time to publicly tell their grievous ...
Counterpunch

The Politicization of Intelligence Weakens the United States - The politicization of intelligence is nothing new, but Donald Trump is finding new ways to pursue it. The United States has gone to war with phony intel...
jobsanger

Trump Only Hires People Who Are Corrupt, Bigoted, Dishonest, Or All Three -
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: Queensland Teachers Union “pauses” strike threat - The union bureaucrats are defying the members’ vote for further strikes, in order to finalise a sellout deal with the state’s Liberal National Party (LNP) ...
Informed Comment

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11 - The eleventh quatrain in the first edition Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám became one of the more famed poems in the Englis...
Ballot Access News

Missouri House Passes Bill to Require Constitutional Amendment Initiatives to Win a Majority in All Eight U.S. House Districts - On September 8, the Missouri House gave tentative approval to HJR3, the bill to require constitutional initiatives to pass in all eight U.S. House district...
Portside

Need I List All the Reasons Why Trump Shouldn’t Get a Nobel Peace Prize? - Need I List All the Reasons Why Trump Shouldn’t Get a Nobel Peace Prize? Mark Brody Mon, 09/08/2025 - 23:03
Church and State

Religion and Overpopulation: Threats to Human Survival - If the Catholic Church is not the only important opposition to population growth control, it is, at least, the most significant opposition.
Wolf Street

Stories of Homeowners Hit by Fallout from the Housing Bubble & 3% Mortgages Replace Breathless Media Hype of Bidding Wars - Turns out, free money is a toxin. And now the housing market has cancer.
Brad Blog

Trump Readies Wars on Venezuela and Chicago: 'BradCast' 9/8/2025 - I can't believe we're covering any of this. But, on today's BradCast, we're sounding twin alarms about the President of the United State's explicit threats...
Workers World

From Palestine to Turtle Island: Smash the capitalists’ settler states! - [image: From Palestine to Turtle Island: Smash the capitalists’ settler states!] This is Part Three of a series based on a talk given at a national Workers...
Independent Political Report

Alex Ziwahatan Launches Independent Campaign for 2026 Oregon Gubernatorial Race - Alex Ziwahatan, a tech entrepreneur and leader of the Sakochee Tribe of Native American Descendants, has launched an independent campaign for Oregon gove...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters celebrate 19 years of LGBTQ hellraising and receipt keeping - Alvin A. McEwen, blogmaster of Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters celebrates his blog's 19th anniversary (after apparently watching too many scenes of Dia...
Antiwar.com

A Global Awakening: How People Power Is Reshaping Western Policy on Palestine - Is it finally happening? Is the West turning against Israel? Or are we, whether motivated by hope or driven by despair, simply engaging in wishful thinking...
Krebs on Security

18 Popular Code Packages Hacked, Rigged to Steal Crypto - At least 18 popular JavaScript code packages that are collectively downloaded more than two billion times each week were briefly compromised with malicious...
The Greanville Post

Empire of Lies Faces Final Curtain - GEORGE HAZIM—Since World War two’s end, America has waged war without pause. From Vietnam to Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and beyond, Washington’s foreign pol...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico treasurer urges Supreme Court to strike down Trump tariffs - [image: New Mexico Treasurer Laura Montoya is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold lower court rulings that found President Donald Trump’s tariffs on ...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Hadeel's Birth Fund - Help an expectant mother and her family.
Claytoonz

Citizenship Blues - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Sludge

Trump-Tied Ballard Partners Becomes the Highest-Paid Lobbying Firm in D.C. - The firm, which employed Attorney General Pam Bondi and other Trump administration officials as lobbyists, saw its lobbying revenue skyrocket by 300% year-...
The Grayzone

Israeli intel campaign used US comedian in effort to flip Iranian scientists - A mysterious online campaign linked to Israel’s intelligence services attempted to recruit Iranians to overthrow their government. Some appear to have be...
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
WhoWhatWhy

Another Lie Exposed: Trump’s Bawdy Birthday Note to Epstein Emerges - [image: Jared Moskowitz, holds, Trump Epstein Poster] In an episode that would surely damage his credibility if he had any left, the drawing of a nude woma...
Progressive.org

The Real Cause of Homelessness - For decades, a misleading narrative about mental illness among the unhoused obscured the true source of the crisis: hyper-commodified housing.
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE/ DOCUMENTARY FILM / The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2025 Cross-posted from Alice Embree’s Substack. The documentary portrait of folk and protest singer Barbara D...
Mondoweiss

The ethnic cleansing of Gaza City is expanding as Israel levels residential high-rises - [image: Israel strikes a residential high-rise tower in Gaza City, September 7, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)]After leveling Gaza City's eastern n...
Deadline Politics

The Wall Street Journal Publishes Birthday Letter To Jeffrey Epstein Bearing Donald Trump’s Signature; POTUS Sued And Claimed It Was “Fake” - The Wall Street Journal on Monday published a copy of a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that bears Donald Trump’s signature. The Journal‘s report on the...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “France In Crisis” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: France teeters on the brink of chaos as Prime Minister François Bayrou’s government collapses after just ni...
OpEd News

Lebanon deals with Hezbollah, Israel, and U.S. diplomacy - This article talks about the latest developments and tension in Lebanon
NORML

Analysis: No Differences in Cognitive Performance in Older Adults Who Consume Cannabis - [image: an older man with short grey hair and a long grey beard sits at a table holds a lighter to a clear glass bong to smoke legal cannabis][image: an ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The MAGA kids are not all White: Tokenizing Black Conservatism - Friends: The *Washington Post*’s profile of CJ Pearson’s “Cruel Kids Summer” party shows how Trumpism is being rebranded: young, multiracial, and “fun.” D...
The Conversation

How Trump’s dismissal of a Fed governor could redefine presidential power – if courts agree that he alone can interpret vague laws - Donald Trump’s unprecedented firing of a Federal Reserve board member isn’t just about her job status. It’s about what checks remain on a president bent on...
Texas Standard

Texans urged to remain ‘bear aware’ after sightings in East Texas - The state’s black bear population is increasing, though researchers aren’t sure just how much.
Project Censored

Resisting Silence: From Palestine to Cop City - In the first part of the program, Mickey Huff sits down with author and professor Omar Zahzah to talk about his upcoming book: Terms of Servitude: Zionis...
Capital & Main

MAHA Promised Healthier Kids. But School Lunches May Deliver Less. - Cuts to SNAP and farm-to-school programs under the Trump administration risk worsening childhood disease, nutrition experts warn. The post MAHA Promised ...
Dissent Magazine

Falling Leaves - How do we know when democracy is gone?
Debunking Christianity

How Strong is 2nd/3rd Handed Testimony? - From Jack Johnson on Facebook. He studied Biblical academics and counseling at Baptist Bible College, Baptist Bible School of Theology, Trinity Seminary. ...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Author and Activist Bill McKibben Brings The Sun - Listen now and read a transcript of this episode. Introducing Sustainability In Your Ear transcripts... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Author and A...
Dorf on Law

What Should a Lower Federal Court Judge Do When SCOTUS Plays Calvinball? - Last week, Federal District Court Judge Allison Burroughs handed Harvard a major victory in its lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's withholdin...
See You In 2020

American Azovism, & the popular masses who will wage a resistance against it - “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles”—Sun Tzu When you know where to look, it’s easy to become fa...
The Progressive Wing

9/8-9/14 News Round Up and Open Thread - The U.S. Open just showed Donald Trump on the screen for a second time and he got booed for 30 seconds straight. Fans are pissed off. This is the clip that...
The AltWorld

The Word “Terrorist” Becomes More And More Of A Joke By The Day - British police arrested nearly 900 people over the weekend for expressing support for the peace activist group Palestine Action. […] The post The Word “T...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 07, 2025 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 07, 2025 by Tony Wikrent They’re not capitalists — they’re predatory criminals Why does the Trump regime wa...
Bracing Views

Sports and the Military - An Unholy Alliance BILL ASTORE SEP 07, 2025 There’s a full slate of NFL football games today, meaning there’ll be a full slate of military flyovers and sim...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Trieste (2009) - [image: Cubism]
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Weakest Men: Fascism, War, and the Illusion of Strength - The Trump Administration and their political movement is built on weakness masquerading as strength
The Texas Signal

Houston Maritime Museum Reopens Where City’s History Began - The Maritime Museum is incredibly elegant, easily the fanciest of Houston’s little quirky museums (or maybe the quirkiest of the fancy museums)
Lowering the Bar

Yet More Aquatic Escape Attempts - [image: pond standoff]People show no signs of stopping, even though these show no signs of working.
slacktivist

LBCF: Episode IV - Wherein we contemplate the effects of the Rapture, the Great Tribulation, and the Rise of the Antichrist on the business model of suburban chain restaurants.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Would you like a free tree? - The City of Dallas will be handing out free trees on Arbor Day, which falls on November 8. You can choose from American Elm, Bald Cypress, Chinquapin Oak...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
Environment Texas

Why are manatees starving and what can we do to help? - More algae blooms in Florida’s waters means less food for its struggling manatees. The post Why are manatees starving and what can we do to help? appeare...
Earthworks

In the Race to Build the Country’s First Deepwater Port, the Bluewater Texas Terminal is in Last Place - It’s been five years since the Port of Corpus Christi granted lease approval and pipeline easement for Phillips 66 and … The post In the Race to Build t...
DeSmogBlog

Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change? - After skipping Parliament’s return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his party’s annual ...
The Militant

Labor Day reflects growing working-class resistance - Labor Day marches, rallies and other events across North America reflected the step up in union battles today and the thirst of union members for a working...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Duck of Minerva

Benjamin de Carvalho - Dr. Benjamin de Carvalho joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Ben was born in Switzerland to a mother from Norway and a father from Brazil. Ben talks about h...
Reform Austin

New Texas Laws Targets Hemp THC Products and Gendered Restroom Bill - On August 15, Texas lawmakers started a second special session to review and come up with a resolution concerning the Hill Country flooding, THC products...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. What I'm following: Marco Rubio in Mexico, and his comments at a press conference aft...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The 2025-2026 Gubernatorial Races: Rating Changes in Virginia, Iowa, and Maine - Virginia to Likely Democratic, while Iowa and Maine move from Likely to Leans The post The 2025-2026 Gubernatorial Races: Rating Changes in Virginia, Io...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
Ecosophia

Situationism: A Voice From The Fringes - There’s much to be learned from studying movements that thought they were the wave of the future, and weren’t. To begin with, there’s a distinctive tone of...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
Black Agenda Report

Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera - Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera bareditors Tue, 09/02/2025 - 23:00 North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights
LareDOS

Unleash your voice: the power of public speaking - Toastmasters International is here to help!
Progressives Chat

‘Chat’ Update … MLB Notes - Now that September has arrived, I want to note that the July and August schedule for blog topics will continue through the remainder of 2025. *Progressiv...
Trivial Knot

Hating the artist, hating the art - (Disclaimer: to the extent that this article was inspired by a specific creator, it’s not a creator you’ve heard of, and not one that I mention anywhere in...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC - A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few weeks ago, has ...
MintPress News

From Revolution to Revival: Russell Brand Embraces Trump and Israel - The former "revolutionary" now blesses GOP rallies, praises J.D. Vance, and defends Israel while his past allies recoil. The post From Revolution to Revi...
Democracy Chronicles

Honoring Legacy, Embracing Justice - My family's story is not only one of proud military service and enduring sacrifice but also one marked by the lasting consequences.
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Texas Freedom Network

New Texas Laws Taking Effect September 1, 2025 and What They Mean for You - Texas is Texas. As Texans, we invite our neighbors to enjoy our barbecue, take pictures in the bluebonnets, and help each other out when the goin’ gets t...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Socialist

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alicublog

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nonsite.org

What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - Why was the left so unsuccessful in crafting a powerful alternative to the agenda of the city’s business elite? A partial answer to this question can be fo...
Campaign for America's Future

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Texas Monthly

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Liberation News

La guerra de Trump contra los sindicatos del VA es una guerra contra los veteranos - El gobierno de Trump declaró el 6 de agosto que cancelaría por completo los contratos sindicales de casi 380,000 trabajadores sindicalizados del Departamen...
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

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Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

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CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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